Teresa Carlson

Teresa Carlson is the Founding President of General Catalyst Institute, leveraging decades of leadership as a visionary technology executive to shape effective global public policy. She worka in partnership with governments to enact positive change for new and emerging technologies, focusing on accelerating national resilience at a global scale in applied AI, defense, national security, energy, health, manufacturing, finance, and other sectors.

Carlson serves on the operating committee of General Catalyst and is a veteran executive of blue-chip companies, including Amazon, where she founded and led Worldwide Public Sector and Industries for AWS, growing it into a multibillion-dollar business. She also led large global organizations at Splunk and Flexport, where she served as President and Chief Growth Officer. Earlier in her career, Carlson led the U.S. Federal Business at Microsoft, then returned where she served as a Corporate Vice President and Executive in Residence.

Carlson currently serves on the Board of Directors for Commure and the Public board of PagerDuty, and is a Board Observer for Re: Build, Re: Car, Cobot, and Mark43. She also dedicates her time to philanthropic roles as the Vice Chair of the White House Historical Association, Executive Committee Member of The Atlantic Council, and Board Trustee at Meridian International.